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The general-health PASS estimation was based on the patient-reported postoperative general health status, using the same anchor question as for the general-health MCII estimation: "In general, would you say your health is... .......... (Kamper-Jørgensen 2005).
The correlations between both the hip-specific anchor and the general-health anchor used for PASS estimation and the postoperative PRO scores were higher than 0.50 for all PRO subscales (p < 0.001), except for the correlation between the hip-specific anchor and EQ-VAS (–0.48; p < 0.001) (Table 8, see Supplementary data).
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The different estimation approaches presented may serve as a guide for future MCII and PASS estimations in other contexts.
In all PASS estimations, the anchor-PRO correlations were over 0.50, except for the EQ-VAS (–0.48).
To our knowledge, there have been no previous PASS estimations for HOOS and EQ-5D using THA patients.
Both MCII and PASS estimations will be of future importance in research and clinical practice because they focus on the patient perspective of total hip arthroplasty (THA).
MCII and PASS estimations were based on hip-specific anchors for hip-specific HOOS subscales and on general-health anchors for the general-health focused EQ-5D Index and EQ-VAS.
There is a lack of patient-based cut-points in the musculoskeletal literature (Keurentjes et al. 2012), and the cut-points may vary depending on context even for a single PRO, making MCII and PASS estimations for THA patients warranted.
The system passes the estimation result to the MAC layer to facilitate the bit-rate selection as well as the power saving function.
The multivariate models did not contain any interactions, and they passed post-estimation controls.
If the test is passed then the estimation can be considered reliable, in the sense that the optimisation search has reached a point on the error surface where the effect of nonlinearities is negligible.
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